Every so often I’ll get asked when I am going to buy a house again. My response is not until after prices bottom. This is when I’m asked to give a date prediction. It’s not that easy. Instead of picking a future date, I have a rule set that will be my guideline.
Supply of inventory [...]
About two weeks ago something very odd happened. I stopped receiving about 80% of my normal email intake. The first problem I noticed was delays with GMAIL. Emails were arriving between 1 minute and 4 hours after being sent to me. I spent hours trying to track this down with no luck. Spam is still [...]
This year I did my taxes without the assistance of an accountant. I used the online free Turbo Tax program, which turned out to be $60 by the time I finished. In the end I owed about $1270, but had I done a few minor things my guess is that taxable amount could have been [...]
Last year I read The Black Swan. At times it was a difficult read, but it was outstanding. It’s clear to me now that I should have read the author’s previous book Fooled by Randomness first. In a word this book was stellar.
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life [...]
Today I had one of the best cups of coffee I’ve ever had. It was the Kenyan Mwiria roasted by 49th Parallel and served in a Clover Coffee brewer at Trabant Coffee. Earlier this week Starbucks announced they bought the company that makes the Clover and I asked an important question.
Will independent coffee [...]
Last October I devoured the book SuperFoods Rx: Fourteen Foods That Will Change Your Life. It was the book I wish I had back in college when I first got interested in nutrition. That was before I discovered The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth.
The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased [...]
Back in 2002, I assembled all the photos and stats from my running days.
Living out in the country I would often run around our 3 mile block. Sometimes I’d run it 2 or 3 times in a single day. However, I wasn’t part of a high school cross country or track team, because I was [...]
My first day of school was in September 1974.
Photo Gallery For First Day of School September 1974
During my six years in the Army National Guard I raced up the ranks from Private (E-1) to Specialist (E-4). Once I achieved the rank of Specialist, which is the pay rank of E-4, I went into chill mode. The rank just above Specialist is Sergeant (see chart). My unit was full [...]
While looking for some old files, I located my original photos from a Hot Air Balloon trip I took over Del Mar, California in 2000. Given the lack of megapixels my camera had back in 2000, the photos aren’t that great. The balloon ride was just prior to massive wave of home building [...]
